Nope…
Dark Purple backing, dark grey coloured font, the long card number only goes half way across the back, followed by the date, then blank up to the Debit Hologram.
Name a similar size…
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It’s interesting that Mastercard, or the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) haven’t specified a common design format for these new cards.
And is your name Jedihomer?! That’s cool.
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Thanks mate - It’s not great - are they trying to test customer vision 
Are they reissuing cards? Or are you a new customer? (Or something else!)
‘Lost’ my wallet the other week, so needed a replacement card.
I think they’re issuing them automatically for people who still have the pre-paid card. Other than that, I think it’s just the new card you’ll get when you need a replacement or are a new customer.
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That’s weird - I received a new card only last month and it was the old one (they automatically send me the card).
Must have happened very recently.
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Have had a Curve (black) account since they launched and haven’t been upgraded. The expiry on the card is a couple of months into next year.
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I just got my card and was surprised that after 3-4 tries to make first chip&PIN it did not work probably for the same reason… 
Also for that reason too (BORICA) my Monzo Apple Pay does not work!!! stupid company
Heads up, looks like Curve will now pass the correct MCC through to the underlying card:
https://blog.imaginecurve.com/introduction-of-new-technology-for-transaction-processing/
So it looks like cash and cash-like transactions will now be presented to the underlying card issuer as such, thus incurring charges / different interest rates.
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Yep
Some transactions may result in charges being levied by certain issuers, dependent on their own terms of service. For example, your card issuer will be able to identify cash withdrawals from your payment card, therefore withdrawing cash from a credit card is not recommended.
This kills a major feature of Curve for me
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One day’s notice, slipped out silently on their blog, no email or app alerts.
This doesn’t endear Curve to me. I wonder how many people are going to get caught out?
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Well that more or less confirms that I don’t need a Curve card then! I am unlikely to withdraw Credit Card cash in any case but the ability to do so was about the only possible benefit I could find in the whole proposition once the cash back offer was curtailed.
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Well that’s ashame, so their take on loyality points has not gone great, now cash, and to be honest my wallet looks far too empty with a single card in when it’s designed for more 
so guess I’m also unsure if Curve has any use left for me.
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I just think that Curve is one of those things that looks great in the theory, has interesting tech, but isn’t a viable standalone business. Where is the revenue coming from?
I still think it’d make a cool acquisition for someone like Monzo when they’re a little bigger, though…
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Why would monzo buy a non-revenue generating business?
Not for the revenue but for the tech. It’s a common pattern in tech companies (think Facebook, Apple, Google) to integrate the technology / intellectual property into their own offering, but killing the original product. I would have thought that Curve might be available at a discount, too.
(I’d use Curve to do something like point 4 here in the Monzo app).
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The amount of additional data they could see from what type of purchases people put on different cards etc.
They would also see what type of users decide to pay with credit vs debit.
Curve when they started were also going to let you take out loans post purchase (a bit like monzo already is testing) to get a lower interest rate than your credit card.
Loyalty cashback schemes Curve have that would give them percentages, if it took off with enough users using it.
Not thinking Monzo would ever buy it, but can see the revenue streams it would bring in for any company.
Won’t this pretty much kill Curve now? Most people seemed to like it for treating credit cards as debit cards
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